Dromankese (B/A), Aug. 11, GNA - Mr Jarvis Agyemang-Badu, Nkoranza District Director of Education, has urged parents to dissuade their children from embarking on hazardous journey to Libya through the Sahara Desert.

He expressed concern that the youth in the Nkoranza area had placed high premium on travelling to that country to seek greener pastures at the expense of further education and employment in Ghana.

Reports from the Ghanaian Embassy in Tripoli indicate that many of those who embark on the perilous journey die on the way.

The District Director was addressing teachers at Dromankese and Busunya Circuits at separate forums as part of his familiarization tour of the District.

Mr Agyeman-Badu emphasized that if the youth took their education seriously, they would acquire gainful employment to enhance their living standards.

"God has time for everything and the youth should not rush in life but must first acquire education and they will live to enjoy pleasurable lives," he advised.

Mr Agyemang-Badu urged teachers in the District to intensify efforts to raise the standard of education in the area. Teachers should also lead morally upright lives so as to command the respect of the people as role models.

Madam Juliana Tutuwaa, District Pre-School Organiser, deplored the practice by some parents, who encouraged their girls to plait their hair, saying the practice should be discontinued. She explained that the practice could entice unscrupulous men to defile or rape them.

The Pre-School Organiser advised parents to monitor the activities of their girls to protect them from bad company. Mr Francis Nkrumah, the local Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, said the circuit lacked a supervisor and that was a big challenge for education in the area.

He appealed to the District Director to post one to the area and appealed to the government to absorb the local Seventh-Day Adventist Junior Secondary School into the public system.